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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • “We immediately began to sink, they saw that… They heard us all screaming, and yet they still left us,” he told the BBC.

    "The first child who died was my cousin’s son… After that it was one by one. Another child, another child, then my cousin himself disappeared. By the morning seven or eight children had died.

    It replied that its staff worked “tirelessly with the utmost professionalism, a strong sense of responsibility and respect for human life and fundamental rights”, adding that they were “in full compliance with the country’s international obligations”


  • It seemed mostly straightforward to me but maybe I didn’t get it? It’s a bunch of stories through time following the decay and collapse of human civilization that mostly have a “slavery and dehumanization is bad but there’s hope because the human spirit” sort of theme, with the narratives connected mostly by the characters reading and being inspired by the records of the previous character’s story. They all end partway on a misleading cliffhanger, and then in the second part of the book it works through them backwards to give the endings. Also maybe they are reincarnations of each other but it’s ambiguous and doesn’t affect the plot afaik.